Government has pitched offshore wind as a way to power Cape Town’s growing AI data centre industry, but the laws and regulations required do not yet exist and the costs are enormous. The department of electricity & energy on Thursday published a strategic framework for offshore wind development, identifying about 95GW of technical potential along…
Kenya’s High Court has declared the government’s sale of a 15% equity stake in Safaricom to South Africa’s Vodacom Group unconstitutional, ordering the shares restored to the state. The ruling nullifies the December transaction that would have increased Vodacom’s controlling interest in East Africa’s largest telecommunications provider to 55%, while reducing the Kenyan Treasury’s holding…
Gauteng’s e-government department says advanced surveillance technology can strengthen police investigations. (Image source: 123RF) The Gauteng provincial government has reaffirmed its support for law enforcement through technology-enabled crime-fighting infrastructure, following the discovery of the bodies of nine women in Ekurhuleni. In a statement, the Gauteng Department of e-Government says it will ensure technology infrastructure deployed…
The author, Global Kinetic CEO Martin Dippenaar Many South African companies are walking blindly into an unhealthy and unsustainable dependence on public large language models without understanding the commercial and governance risks. Financial institutions and other large enterprises are right to be anxious about privacy, but many still underestimate how quickly a public AI service…
MediaTek has officially announced its latest flagship mobile processor, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, marking the chipmaker’s debut on TSMC’s cutting-edge 2-nanometer N2P manufacturing process. The milestone places MediaTek at the forefront of the mobile silicon transition alongside Apple, which recently adopted TSMC’s 2nm node for the iPhone 18 series, and ahead of key rival Qualcomm,…
MIP Holdings has confirmed the breach, which it says happened in June. (Image source: iStock) Insurer Hollard has rejected claims that its IT systems were hacked, saying a threat actor’s allegations stem from a cyber incident at a third-party service provider. This, after a threat actor called “The Gentlemen” claimed on the dark web that…
Octotel CEO Trevor van Zyl Octotel and MetroFibre Networx are actively assessing a combination that would create South Africa’s third-largest fibre network operator, Octotel CEO Trevor van Zyl has told the TechCentral Show. The two companies share a common investor. A consortium led by African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), a division of Old Mutual Alternative…
Microsoft will host a specialized hardware and software event in San Francisco on October 7, focused on how local artificial intelligence processing will shape the next generation of personal computing. Coming several months after NVIDIA unveiled its RTX Spark system-on-chip for Windows, the presentation is expected to provide key updates on local model execution and…
AI is moving from experimentation into core banking, while payments and digital platforms become increasingly important sources of growth. (Image created via Gemini) South Africa’s major banks are embedding artificial intelligence (AI) deeper into their operations, as they shift digital transformation beyond technology rollouts towards measurable financial outcomes. According to PwC South Africa’s Major Banks…
MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman Ferdi Moolman has worked for MTN for most of his career, but until he took over as CEO of its South African business late last year, almost none of that work was done in South Africa. He left the country at the turn of the century, ran MTN Nigeria…
